by Bill Cafaro In Stormy Daniels v. Donald J. Trump, Michael Cohen, and the LLC that paid her the $130,000 in hush money, in federal court in Los Angeles , she is asking the court to let her ou...
A New Law to Further the Prevention of Sexual Harassment in NYC Workplaces The New York City Council recently passed legislation called the Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act. If Mayor Bill de Blasi...
As the weather warms up, people take to the road and want to spend more time outdoors. In particular, an increasing number of bicyclists and pedestrians join the thoroughfares, and motorists need t...
Can Employers Ask Employees About their Salary History? On May 4, 2017, the New York City Council passed a bill that limited what an employer can ask job candidates about their salary history, comp...
Clarifications for Employers for Women in the Workplace In June of 2014, the Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York signed amendments to the New York State Human Rights Law, which bolstered civil rights...
The parent company of Weinstein Co.filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware on March 20, 2018. Before that, Eric Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General, had filed a lawsuit again...
The New York Compassionate Care Act (NYCCA) protects patients who are certified to use medical marijuana from being subject to criminal or civil marijuana charges. We live in an age where some stat...
by Stephen D. Hans As an employer, have you ever wondered if a wage deduction you made was legal? New York Labor Law establishes what is legal and what is not for wage deductions. If you have que...
by Stephen D. Hans Owners in the restaurant industry often have questions about tips. As a restaurant owner, it’s important to know your rights and responsibilities regarding tips so you can avoi...
An interview by Tiziano Thomas Dossena She is the optimal example of a Renaissance woman and a New Yorker combined: humble but determined, soft spoken but direct, with a genial attitude not u...
Stopping terror Dear Editor, Vehicle attacks against innocents civilians in Jerusalem, Istanbul, Berlin, London, Nice, Brussels and now Barcelona cause world uproar following the attacks except the ones in Israel....
Tear it down Dear Editor, At the center of the chaos in Charlottesville is a statue memorializing the Confederacy’s top general, Robert E. Lee, which was presented to the city in 1924 at a Confederate reunion. ...
Mansplaining Lee Dear Editor, General Robert E. Lee, who graduated the U.S. Military Academy second in his class, remains an American hero despite his role in the Confederacy. As a native Virginian, General Lee is ...
Kicking the can Dear Editor, Is it coincidence that Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed to raise New York Thruway tolls in 2020 after the election in 2018? To pay back the $1.6 billion federal loan that helped finance ...
Inspect city trees Dear Editor, The recent accident in which an Elm tree fell and injured a mother and her three children in Central Park due to root rot should be a wakeup call for the Parks Department to begin imme...
A Confederate stand Dear Editor, Monuments and plaques of confederate notables like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson have been taken down in the Bronx and Brooklyn, and there is a push to rename some streets. In my...
'White' House Dear Editor, Over the past few years, President Donald Trump has bashed Anderson Cooper, the family of a Muslim military veteran who was killed in action, Whoopi Goldberg, Nordstrom, opinion polls,...
Ramp up Dear Editor, Kudos to Councilman Rory Lancman and Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz for getting funds to build a wheelchair ramp, which allows P.S. 201 to regain its status as a polling place. The Pom...
Anti-American Dear Editor, I am appalled and quite disturbed by the news that violence erupted on Saturday in Charlottesville. Americans hating Americans demonstrates to the world that we don't practice what we ...
Scared president Dear Editor, Hundreds of alt-right activists, neo-Nazis and white nationalist extremists descended on Charlottesville last Saturday in what may have been the largest hate-gathering of its kind in d...
Straight shooter Dear Editor, The modern-day conservative movement's founding father, the late Arizona Senator and 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, would have been disappointed in President D...
RIP Glen Campbell Dear Editor, Country singer Glen Campbell was a true music icon in the entertainment world for more than 50 years. With such classic songs as "Rhinestone Cowboy," “Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston,"...
Sack Blaz Dear Editor, We elected Mayor Bill de Blasio to run our city, not run away from it. His recent jaunt to Hamburg was just the latest in a series of overseas trips in which he tried to position himse...
Sell off PA Dear Editor, Governors Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo's replacement of Port Authority executive director Pat Foye with New York State Special Counsel for Interagency Initiatives Rick Cotton, and C...
Why debt? Dear Editor, We are the richest country in the world, so why are we in debt for $20 trillion? The answer is simple: we have bad financial management. All this debt is, for the most part, unconstitu...